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    copied!<p>There are a few questions that approach an answer to this question, but none that really helped me out.</p> <p>I have a web application with a back-end written in Spring/Java that currently has a very web 1.0 interface, I would like to build a richer more interactive version of the site using a RIA (rich internet application) framework.</p> <p>I am keen on RIA frameworks that support layout managers as well as UI component libraries. (as I always find myself wondering why some div is in the wrong place, or has the wrong border etc, and i am not a web UX person;-)</p> <p>I have previous experience using the eclipse RAP framework, and while that actually worked quite nicely, it was very restrictive and a tiny bit buggy.</p> <p>I have listed the following frameworks, with my experiences and would like to see answers on whether I am correct in my assessment, and any other suggestions or fuller information.</p> <p>Edit: here is a document with some breakdowns of various RIA frameworks and libs available to Java <a href="http://www.theserverlabs.com/brochures/RIA_Frameworks-TSL-evaluation.pdf" rel="nofollow">RIA_Frameworks</a></p> <p>Many Thanks.</p> <p><strong>ExtJS / ExtGWT</strong> <a href="http://www.sencha.com/products/gwt/" rel="nofollow">ExtGWT product page</a><br> <strong>SmartGWT</strong><br> <strong>Get-Ext</strong><br> pros: </p> <ul> <li>open source lib available</li> <li>Java api</li> <li>has a demo with a funky guitar track ;-)</li> <li>lots of UI components available</li> <li>layout manager</li> </ul> <p>cons: </p> <ul> <li>it seems that theme-ing it must be difficult as all the implementations look really like "extJS"</li> <li>as I want to use Java to bind to the UI components the integration is important</li> <li>there are people complaining about how it doesn;t work very well; <a href="http://whatwouldnickdo.com/wordpress/235/gwt-ext-to-ext-gwt/" rel="nofollow">http://whatwouldnickdo.com/wordpress/235/gwt-ext-to-ext-gwt/</a></li> <li>the status of the various GWT integrated products is quite confused</li> </ul> <p><strong>OpenLaszlo</strong><br> pros:</p> <ul> <li>appears to support "real time" components like stock tickers well</li> <li>integrates with lightspeed http server </li> </ul> <p>cons </p> <ul> <li>looks to need a developer license to access the SDK</li> </ul> <p><strong>Backbase</strong><br> pros </p> <ul> <li><p>cons </p></li> <li></li> </ul> <p><strong>RAP</strong> <a href="http://rap.eclipsesource.com/rapdemo/examples#Buttons" rel="nofollow">RAP demo site</a> pros:</p> <ul> <li>can leverage SWT code investment </li> <li>eclipse integration </li> </ul> <p>cons:</p> <ul> <li>inflexible </li> <li>deployment was a pain </li> <li>hard to troubleshoot bugs</li> <li>doesn't seem to support </li> </ul> <p><strong>TIBCO general interface</strong> <a href="http://www.generalinterface.org/" rel="nofollow">TIBCO GI opensource</a></p> <p>pros </p> <ul> <li>open source available </li> <li>integrates with lightstreamer http live streaming server </li> </ul> <p>cons </p> <ul> <li>doesn't look very easy to get started</li> </ul> <p><strong>JSF and <a href="http://jboss.org/richfaces" rel="nofollow">http://jboss.org/richfaces</a>.</strong></p> <p>Pro's:</p> <ul> <li>JSF can be somewhat considered a standard</li> <li>RichFaces has great support and easily integrates with JSF</li> <li>RichFaces has all sorts of handy GUI components</li> </ul> <p>Cons:</p> <ul> <li>Steep learning curve for JSF</li> <li>Performance of both JSF and RichFaces are not incredible. Use it wisely (not for 1000 concurrent sessions)</li> <li>no layout manager, need to get down and dirty with DIVS and css</li> </ul>
 

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